Miscellany: Engagement

In Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, the alarm went out that a naked lunatic was
crawling through the fields beside a road, uttering low sounds. On
signal police rushed the man, threw a blanket over his head, bore him
off struggling to an ambulance. From beneath the blanket, as they drove
toward an asylum, came a muffled but coherent voice. Timidly the
prisoner explained that his clothes had been stolen while he was
swimming, that he had promised to be home at dinner time, that he felt
he should not break the engagement.